This is a discussion on Oracle Sun Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe Card Accelerates Web Caching Performance - Solaris Rss ; Using Oracle's Sun FlashFire technology, the Sun Accelerator F20 PCIe Card is shown to be a high performance and cost effective caching device for web servers. Many current web and application servers are designed with an active cache that is ...

Using Oracle's Sun FlashFire technology, the Sun Accelerator F20 PCIe Card is shown to be a high performance and cost effective caching device for web servers. Many current web and application servers are designed with an active cache that is used for holding things like session objects, files and web pages. The Sun F20 card is shown to be an excellent candidate to improve performance over using HDD solutions.

The Sun Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe Card provides 2x better Quality of Service (QoS) at the same load as compared to 15K RPM high performance disk drives.

The Sun Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe Card allows for easy expansion of the webcache. Each card provides an additional 96 GB of storage.

The Sun Flash Accelerator F20 PCIe Card used as a caching device offers Bitrate and Quality of Service (QoS) comparable to that provided by memory. While memory also provides excellent caching performance in comparison to disk, memory capacity is limited in servers.

This benchmark is based upon the description of the flickr website presented at http://highscalability.com/flickr-architecture. It measures performance of an HTTP-based file photo Slide Show workload. The workload randomly selects and downloads from 80 photos stored in 4 bins: